This case challenges a presumption of pretrial detention that applies to nearly all people charged with federal drug offenses.

Xavier Hersom applied for and was denied a gender marker change on his birth certificate. He said DHHR’s policy has created yet another layer of difficulty for him as a transgender person living in West Virginia. The ACLU, the ACLU of West Virginia, and the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic filed a federal lawsuit asking a court to declare West Virginia’s birth certificate policies relating to transgender people unconstitutional on behalf of Hersom and an another anonymous plaintiff.

West Virginia abortion providers and advocates filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging multiple provisions of HB 302, the state’s near-total abortion ban passed in 2022. Plaintiffs in the case sought an injunction blocking the entire ban while providers made their case in court.